Improvement in hydrants



E. STOC K ER & A H EU PE L.

Hydrarnts."

Patented 0ct.'1,' 1872.

Inventors.

Witnesses.

N UNITED NSTATEs FELD, OF SAME PLAGE.

EDWARD" sTooxER AND ANTHONY EEUPEL, 0F LANCASTER, PENNSYLVA- NIA, Ass'IGNORs 0E ONE-THIRD THEIR RIGHT TO EDWARD Gr. HATZ- IMPROVEMENT IN HVDRANTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13L796, dated Octobcr 1, 1872.

, drants which may be readily unscrewed from the fixed bottom section connected with the feed-pipe for the purpose of making repairs without the necessity of digging up the case. (The case requires but a three-inch bore.) The novelty consists in the construction of the vertical stop-cock, with its side passage for the water that enters the barrel below and through the key to be returned to itself above the key, and the manner of operating by av key-rod connected Within the discharge-pipe by square sockets to the top of the key and revolving shaft, Which latter is connected with the turning-handle.

In the drawing, Figure lis a sectional view of the several parts; Fig. 2, the case, six feet in length and fourinches in diameter, (outside,) to show its true proportions; and Fig. 3 is simply to `show a modiiication in the upper section IV, and to show the set-screw W in the collar K in section II.

No special box is required-a simple block,

to which the lower section I S is aftixed by' its base T, and receives the feed-pipe. The upper end of this section has a screw-socket, It, for the reception of the vertical barrel or stop-cock M, section'II, in which is the key Aor valve N, with its side opening O from the interior of the open center. There is also a side opening and water-channel, L, opening Aabove the key into the head K M of lsection II of the stop-cock. This side channel is also `externally produced into a flange, M, for the g application of a forked wrench, by which it can be unscrewed anddetached with the water or discharge pipe c', section III, from the iixed base' section I. There is also an enlargement below the collar K, with a set-screw, W. Section V consists of a shaft, B, to which the 'turning-handle A is attached. This Shaft i passes through and turns within a shouldered sleeve, D, and a spring, c, between said shoulder and a shoulder on the shaft to keep the joint watertight. This sleeve screws into section IV, composing the dischargenozzle Gr to con-V vey the Water outside the case U. The shaft B has a shoulder, E, below the screw end of the sleeve D, in which there is a square socket for the upper end of the key-rod H, the lower end of which fits into a square socket inthe top of the key N.

The operation is simple: By turning the handle A the key is turned so that the opening O comes opposite the opening of the side channel L, which admits the water from the feed-pipe into the discharge-pipe in the ordinary Way; and by turning the handle back again the inlet will be closed and the water stopped off. To prevent freezing an escape for the water is made at any convenient point for a waste-pipe or opening, Q, Fig. 1.

`We are aware that there are numerous devices patented with the same object in view; but We are not aware that the same arrangement is claimed or shown substantially as herein figured and described. We believe that its cheapness and efficacy and simplicity, as a whole, make it a valuable improvement Vin hydrants.

What we claim as our improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The vertical barrel K or stop-cock, when provided with a side channel, L, forming an external prolonged keel, and wrench-ange M, with a set-screw, W, in the enlarged collar K, and provided with an open key, N, so as to allow the,water to enterthe barrel through the key below and pass over thekey into the barrel and discharge-pipe t', together with the key-rod H, when within the pipe Q1, and held in socketsin the key and turning shaft B within its sleeve D, the whole combined, as,

shown by sections I, II, III, IV, and V, 'ior the purpose specitied.

EDVARD STOCKER. ANTHONY HEUPEL.

Witnesses:

WM. B. WILEY, J AcoR STAUEFER. 

